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James Bond

PostPosted: October 6th, 2011, 4:52 pm
by Memnoch26
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Carte Blanche updates James Bond's backstory to fit with the 21st century setting, making it the first ever reboot of the literary James Bond series. Jeffery Deaver has stated that his James Bond will have been born in 1979, making him a veteran of the war in Afghanistan (Operation Herrick) instead of a World War II veteran and Cold War secret agent as originally conceived by creator Ian Fleming.
Set in mid-2011, the story takes place over the course of a week. James Bond is a former Royal Naval Reserve officer who has recently joined the Overseas Development Group - a covert operational unit of British security under the control of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office tasked "to identify and eliminate threats to the country by extraordinary means." Bond is an agent with the 00 Section of O (Operations) Branch of the ODG.
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Carte Blanch – Unrestricted power to act at one's own discretion

The book contains most of the elements of a typical Bond story:
1. A sinister threat to the world by an unlikely villain and a sinister villain female
2. A wild goose chase that runs through different countries
3. Fast paced action
4. A twist and betrayal at the end.
5. Bond saves the day.
6. The high tech gadgets
7. Bond’s Car and high speed car chase
8. And of course, the BOND GIRLS.

The story started in Serbia, moves to Dubai and ends up in Cape Town Africa. A businessman with a sick fascination for dead bodies, now wants to expand his fetish and now be the one to cause the deaths and not only see the aftermath. Bond chases him from Serbia to Cape town only to discover that he was chasing the “front act or diversion.” The villain's allies was actually aiming to start a war in Africa.

In the end, Bond still saves the day.

There are just some small differences that the author(Deaver) made against the Bond movies that we have seen. M (Bond’s boss) is portrayed as a man in the book while the movies showed M as a woman. Q Branch head (bonds weapons maker) is now a man named Sanu Hirani. Ian Flemings Bond have Mayor Boothroyd as Q Branch head. Fleming’s Bond is a smoker while Deaver’s is a ex-smoker.

Bond’s car is a Bentley Continental GT. He also drove a SUBARU in the book.

His weapon – a walther and an iphone (modified and named as iQphone).

I hope they make this into a movie.

Rebooting James Bond

PostPosted: October 18th, 2011, 9:04 am
by bossjun
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Rebooting James Bond
By: Ruel S. De Vera
Philippine Daily Inquirer 2:28 am | Monday, September 26th, 2011 0share1 0
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Like any good spy, the British secret agent James Bond reinvents himself whenever the occasion calls for it. The world’s most famous fictional spy has been doing so ever since Ian Fleming first deployed him in the 1953 novel “Casino Royale.”

Through novels, short stories and movies, Bond has reincarnated numerous times, but the elements that made him a hit remain the same: suave with the women, deadly with a good, happy with the perks of the job.

Perhaps the purest expression of the James Bond character remains that in the novels. Fleming died in 1964, but like other famous operatives like the late Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, Bond has outlived his creator. The last Bond novel, 2008’s “Devil May Care,” written by British author Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming had returned Bond to his origins—the turbulent world of the ’60s.

But there is a new audience for all things Bond, as proven by the re-imagination of the Bond movie franchise, which featured Daniel Craig as Bond and placed him in the current world stage in 2006’s “Casino Royale” and 2008’s “Quantum of Solace.”

The Bond books have been updated as well, and the author, popular American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, no longer has to go under cover as Ian Fleming. Deaver’s new Bond book, “Carte Blanche,” (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2011, 414 pages) the 37th Bond novel, inserts 007 into the year 2011. “Carte Blanche,” which is French for blank check, reflects Bond’s mission parameters with regards to the British nation. “Protect the Realm… by any means necessary.”

The tense events in “Carte Blanche” occur over a single week. A train accident in Serbia leads to frightening fragments of information: “casualties in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.” Someone known only by the name Noah is planning something big and bloody, classified under the name “Incident 20,” and only Bond can stop him. Bond chases down leads and faces down assailants in Novi Sad, Dubai and Cape Town.

Changes

There have been obvious changes. Instead of working for MI6, Bond now works for a new shadowy independent agency with the rather euphemistic code name Overseas Development Group or ODG. Bond’s boss codenamed M is once again male. Q is an entire department instead of a person. Bond doesn’t even have his signature Martini—here, he is trying out a new concoction that he will later call the “Carte Blanche.”

That is one of the little touches Deaver uses to remind us that this gritty new Bond is still the Bond of old. There are the shiny details of the good life around him: Breitling watches, a Bentley Continental, Beluga caviar and so on.

The women around Bond remain dubiously named: Ophelia Maidenstone, Mary Goodnight and Felicity Willing.

Deaver, an old hand at this kind of thing—see 1997’s “The Bone Collector”— seems genuinely excited to be working with such exquisite hardware and delivers a taut, if conventional thriller that basically takes 007 for a whirl in the new century. His Bond isn’t as grim as Craig’s movie version, but also isn’t as flippant as previous versions. He is still learning but is utterly professional, more of a spook than an assassin. Deaver’s main villain is vintage Bond: the crooked businessman named Severan Hydt, a tycoon in the recycling business with a taste for things that are decaying and a taciturn handyman known as the Irishman.

“Carte Blanche” is efficient entertainment as Deaver throws in a couple of twists—like the Orange ones Bond prefers in his cocktails—to keep the reader on their feet. More than anything, “Carte Blanche” feels like an official introduction to Deaver’s modern 007; the succeeding Bond novels will most likely be following this exemplar. Consider Jeffery Deaver’s “Carte Blanche” to be a welcome acquaintance, a James Bond whom we’d be happy to meet again in forthcoming undercover adventures.

Re: Rebooting James Bond

PostPosted: October 18th, 2011, 5:18 pm
by Memnoch26
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Rebooting James Bond
By: Ruel S. De Vera
Philippine Daily Inquirer 2:28 am | Monday, September 26th, 2011 0share1 0
http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/15727/reb ... james-bond


Like any good spy, the British secret agent James Bond reinvents himself whenever the occasion calls for it. The world’s most famous fictional spy has been doing so ever since Ian Fleming first deployed him in the 1953 novel “Casino Royale.”

Through novels, short stories and movies, Bond has reincarnated numerous times, but the elements that made him a hit remain the same: suave with the women, deadly with a good, happy with the perks of the job.

Perhaps the purest expression of the James Bond character remains that in the novels. Fleming died in 1964, but like other famous operatives like the late Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, Bond has outlived his creator. The last Bond novel, 2008’s “Devil May Care,” written by British author Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming had returned Bond to his origins—the turbulent world of the ’60s.

But there is a new audience for all things Bond, as proven by the re-imagination of the Bond movie franchise, which featured Daniel Craig as Bond and placed him in the current world stage in 2006’s “Casino Royale” and 2008’s “Quantum of Solace.”